ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2022

also lack demographic, racial and ethnic diversity with less than 20% identifying as people of color. Research indicates workforce diversity is the cultural or demographic characteristics that makes employees unique, which is needed to effectively confront social issues and achieve social good. In 2017, 87% of the U.S.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Meaningful Volunteer Roles: By understanding volunteer skill sets and motivations, leadership can advocate for the creation of impactful volunteer roles. Volunteer Demographics and Motivations Understanding who your volunteers are and why they volunteer helps tailor engagement strategies.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. It explains why philanthropy plays a vital role in addressing today’s climate crisis.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 13, 2022

According to the Deloitte Global 2021 Millennial and Gen Z Survey , 35% of millennials and 40% of Gen Z respondents volunteered at a non-profit, charity, or community organization, w hile 55% of millennials and 52% of Gen Z respondents donated to charities. . According to Gallup , millennials seek managers who take on a mentoring role.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

To assist with your recruitment efforts , survey your members and be sure to include questions addressing basic demographic data. After you’ve gathered the survey results, you can review the information and determine which members would be the best fit for your diverse and inclusive volunteer group. . Train your volunteers.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

Here are 5 key parts of a donor persona: Demographic information : This includes age, gender, location, education, income, occupation, and other relevant demographic details. This can include demographic information, giving history, communication preferences, and other relevant data points.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position. Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Do you serve K-12 students?

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sgEngage

MAY 2, 2022

Inability to match volunteers with roles that suit their skills and interests. . Depending on the demographics of your volunteers, certain communication platforms will be more effective than others. . Host a comprehensive training process for new volunteers to get them comfortable with their roles. Volunteer burnout. .

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Greater Giving

JUNE 8, 2023

Post-event follow-up plays a vital role in maintaining donor engagement, expressing gratitude, and maximizing your fundraising efforts. Understanding Attendee Profiles Collect demographic information like age, gender, and occupation, along with data on how attendees learned about the event (e.g.,

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

Define Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities Once you’ve identified the tasks that volunteers can perform, create clear and detailed job descriptions for each role. Develop a recruitment strategy that targets the ideal volunteer demographics. What skill sets are required for these tasks?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

By investing in getting to know who your volunteers are and what motivates them to donate their time and effort to your organization, you can ensure that they are placed in a role where they will thrive. In turn, this empowers each organization to match the right volunteers with the right role every time. WHO are your volunteers?

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Forum One

AUGUST 19, 2021

Audience research is most commonly conducting through the following approaches: Surveys: Often considered as quantitative research, surveys can include open-ended or multiple-choice questions. When you’re surveying a larger number of people, limit your survey to multiple-choice or other closed question types.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

Or, if you’re still planning community engagement ideas, send out a survey to your support base to ask for their opinions on ways they’d like to get more involved. Include important information such as estimated time commitment, location, key dates, and materials or skills required so you get the most qualified supporters to fill each role.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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Candid

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Can a foundation live up to its role of serving the public good with an invite-only process? Many demographic frameworks are set up for US-based organizations. And can small foundations effectively and efficiently review an open call for proposals? When Numbers Fall Short: The Challenge of Measuring Diversity in a Global Context.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The reality is that the higher education pipeline is even smaller than what demographic statistics show. Survey your recent alums to discover what life benefits beyond employment they attribute to their college experience and share those widely. What is the rate of post-graduation employment in sought-after fields?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Survey responses suggest that systemic racial barriers may be the cause of these inconsistencies. Respondents of color report greater workplace challenges than white respondents, including: Lack of role models. Utilizing hiring technology that hides applicant demographics. Disparities in access to mentorship programs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2022

The Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey, administered by Nonprofit HR, found that 64% of the nonprofits surveyed did not have a formal strategy for recruiting employees, and 56% indicated that they had no structured plans to create one. Recruiting diverse leadership. As the U.S.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Sponsors often play a large role in the success of any event. And virtual events provide a great opportunity to potential sponsors by offering greater insight into attendee demographics and behaviors. One of the biggest errors you can make as an event planner is to skip the post-event survey. Choosing the Wrong Sponsors.

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Candid

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a career fundraiser, I’ve worked in various roles at Candid, starting as a development associate in 2013 and working my way up to vice president of influence (the division in which our development department is housed). Full disclosure: I’m biased in favor of nonprofits on the subject of grant applications and reporting.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, they can read the full marketing plan to understand how their responsibilities fit in with other roles and the broader goals of the campaign. You or your marketing agency may conduct interviews with target audience members, share surveys, create audience personas, perform A/B tests, and more. Conducting user research.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Define the demographic characteristics of who is most affected by the identified issues. Consider conducting surveys, interviews, focus groups, or community forums to gather input directly from those affected by the issues. Explore the role of technology in nonprofit operations. Who will your nonprofit serve?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

According to a survey by Bloomerang , in cooperation with Nonprofit Marketing Guide: Most nonprofits are familiar with communication segmenting. The most common segments tracked past donor interactions, not demographics. Understanding how that data can affect donor conversion in the future can be very elusive. It makes sense.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Few roles have changed more dramatically since the pandemic than that of the event marketer. In essence, the role of event marketers has transformed from a cost center to being a revenue-generating profit center. The Changing Role of the Event Marketer. The Changing Role of the Event Marketer. Table of Contents. **.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Impact metrics play a crucial role in defining your nonprofit’s impact story and demonstrating your value to your donors, funders, volunteers, board members, and other key stakeholders. Participant demographics. With this in mind, let’s begin by discussing the value of thoughtful nonprofit impact metrics. . Number of participants.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

Jen initially wrote this post for me to share a highlights from a webinar we hosted: Are you asking the right questions in your post event survey? In July we sent out a survey to over 6,000 donors, participants, and team captains and got about 1,000 responses. We involved IT, Marketing, and Fund Development to help craft the survey.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Sponsors often play a large role in the success of any event. And virtual events provide a great opportunity to potential sponsors by offering greater insight into attendee demographics and behaviors. One of the biggest errors you can make as an event planner is to skip the post-event survey. Choosing the Wrong Sponsors.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Not every volunteer is available for every role you need to fill, so provide your volunteers with the flexibility to work the jobs that match their skillset and schedule. Your data tells you which volunteer demographics prefer different volunteer opportunities and what they’re more likely to sign up for. Flexibility.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 10, 2023

Specifically, for your nonprofit merchandise, assess your audience by: Reviewing demographic data. While a younger demographic may want different products than an older one, consider other factors, as well. To learn more about your audience’s preferences, consider asking them through surveys and online polls.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

And social media for nonprofits plays an integral role in engaging supporters. Is your organization’s demographic mainly boomers and beyond? From the survey, 51 percent of respondents said they had heard about new social good initiatives through social media (keep up the good work, everyone!). Let’s face it. So use it that way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2018

Due to a sector-wide leadership crisis and continual staff burnout, volunteer management and evaluation plays a crucial role in the livelihood of nonprofit organizations. Implement consistent volunteer surveys and staff surveys (related to volunteers). Create key performance indicators (KPIs) and set evaluation goals.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

This day and age, social media plays a crucial role in your marketing strategy. To do this, don’t be afraid to send out a survey to the community online that you’re wanting to reach. It’s now time to consider what social media outlets are available to reach your demographic. Ask about age, gender, interests, etc.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On February 14, Candid launched Demographics via Candid, a campaign through which we partner with organizations across the social sector to encourage demographic data sharing. As organizations begin to share their demographic data using these new options, the numbers will increase. What’s changed?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2018

Marketing plays a crucial role in this aspect, and with a well-defined online marketing strategy, reaching your target audience and the results you want are more than ever before. Despite the fact that there's audience demographics for every social media platform , it doesn't mean that it's only utilized by the younger audience.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Given this, I am encouraged to learn that the majority of foundations CEP surveyed are having conversations about race and doing the hard work of questioning norms, naming barriers, and looking for what might be overlooked. I am a firm believer in collecting demographic data. This brings me to a possible paradox implicit in the report.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

After all, growth plays a key role in increasing your nonprofit’s impact. It’s tempting to collect information about your supporters during the donation process, such as their demographics or interests. Instead, try asking supporters to complete a survey after they’ve hit “submit.”. Choosing your images carefully.

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